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Taproot New Music Festival: Pendulum Music
February 10 @ 1:00 pm
Free
Pendulum Music
Saturday, February 10
1 PM
Manetti Shrem Museum Events Plaza
As part of the campus’ Taproot New Music Festival, Steve Reich’s Pendulum Music (1968) will be performed on the Events Plaza by Alysa Banks (B.A., human development, with minors in music and sociology ’21), Diego Gordon, Alyssa Melendez and Ruby Walker.
Pendulum Music makes use of multiple microphones swinging, pendulum-style, over loudspeakers. Featuring dramatic squawks of feedback, the piece concludes when the inertia of the swinging microphones naturally come to rest. Sharp rhythms gradually wind down into a sustained drone. The composer wrote of the piece, “If it’s done right, it’s kind of funny.”
The Taproot New Music Festival brings together a diverse group of composers and performers, both local and visiting, and gives them the chance to hear new work, and to make lasting connections. Actively inclusive and participatory, Taproot broadcasts a unique vision of how to sustain a musical community.
A full schedule of festival events is available on the Taproot webpage.
Taproot is presented by the UC Davis Department of Music. Co-sponsored by the Manetti Shrem Museum
